Title: Follow the Play
Series: Nashville Rampage #4
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: Single Dad/Nanny Romance
Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity
Release Date: December 16, 2025
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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Follow the Play is a single dad, nanny, friends-to-lovers, forced proximity sports romance.
Baker
Being a single dad was never part of the playbook, but one look at my son and everything changed.
Now football and fatherhood are my whole world—a world that gets turned upside down when my nanny quits two weeks before training camp.
Sloane Peterson runs interference by stepping in to help.
She’s sweet, dependable, and the one woman I shouldn’t want. Not when our lives are so entwined.
But every time she smiles at my son—or me—it gets harder to remember that our little arrangement is only temporary.
Sloane
Taking a short-term nanny gig for Nashville Rampage’s most eligible DILF has disaster written all over it.
But when Daddy Sin is in a bind, I do just that. It keeps me from waiting tables, and his son is the cutest little boy on the planet.
Baker Sinclair is famous, has a body like a Greek god, and when he’s in daddy mode… he’s irresistible. He’s also currently my new boss, and completely forbidden.
The longer I’m in his home, the less this feels like a job.
Because between reading bedtime stories and baking cookies, I can’t imagine my life without them… either of them. Too bad love doesn’t follow lesson plans… or playbooks.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
From the moment that Baker found out he was going to be a father, I have been waiting for him to find his mate. Throughout these books, we have seen him be an absolute gem of a dad to baby Camden. I never expected that Corie’s bestie, Sloan, would be the one who turned out to be Baker’s forever, but here we are. And the story was perfect.
Baker is rocking the single dad thing, with the help of his nanny and band of brothers. Camden’s mom is a supermodel that Baker had a one-night stand with, and Natasha has been an absent mother, at best. If you’ve read the other books in this series, you know that Baker wishes things were different for his son as far as having a relationship with his mother goes. So when Cam’s nanny quits because of a family issue, Sloane — a currently out-of-work early childhood teacher — moves in to help out Baker as the new nanny. Suddenly, after being friends for years, Baker and Sloan are seeing each other in a different light, Camden has completely bonded with the new woman in his life, and Baker is realizing just how lonely he’d been.
I loved the slow burn of their romance and how easily it all came together. Months of tender little moments built up before either of them acknowledged that they weren’t just friends anymore before they even had their first kiss. Everything clicked into place, and I loved how drama-free this story was.
I am really hoping that the next book in the series brings us Foster and Amanda, because there is something sketchy about her husband!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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AUTHOR BIO
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
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